I just moved to Washington, DC, a couple months ago, and I’d like to meet the other xkcders in the area. If you are around the MD/DC/VA region and want to attend and/or know of a good location, please let me know.

I’m pretty sure there are at least a few of us in the vicinity, and I’d like to have this meetup in the next few weeks, perhaps late March or early April.

I'm not there, but I want to visit DC, I've never been. Maybe when I finally do people will want to hang out. I think I missed the cherry blossoms *again* (cause I can't get down there within the next week and a half). I keep meaning to go down for it.

Nothing has come together yet, but I am still game for a meet-up. I’m going out of town for the first two weeks of August, but if we do something in July I’ll be here.

What sort of outdoors thing do you have in mind? There does not seem to be much hiking here, but there is the National Mall with lots of events. I think there is at least one series of free outdoor concerts going on.

I have a feeling that, being as this is DC, and we being from the xkcd forums, there is a rather high likelihood that anything we decided to do would end up involving a not-insignificant amount of political discussion, so that is something to consider.

I'm thinking that should be sufficiently late in the day/enough notice to not interfere with most schedules, conveniently close to DC for our several members there, and being on the beltway, fairly easily accessible to those not in DC as well. Any thoughts/suggestions?

I'm thinking that should be sufficiently late in the day/enough notice to not interfere with most schedules, conveniently close to DC for our several members there, and being on the beltway, fairly easily accessible to those not in DC as well. Any thoughts/suggestions?

I was coming back from a trip, planning to go to the meetup on my way through, but I was about a half hour behind schedule. Then when I got south of Baltimore I opened my phone to check how to get to the BWW, and just as I searched, the phone died.

Okay, no problem, I was prepared, I had my backup battery pack with me, so I plugged it in and…nothing. The battery pack lit up as full, but the phone didn’t react. I waited a bit and tried powering on the phone. It lit up and booted, slowly. Then just as it got to the lock screen, it immediately powered down again. Great.

So I kept on 295, took an exit that said “Greenbelt”, and cruised around trying to find the metro. No dice. I went by a little mall that had no BWW, and after a while I stopped and asked directions at a gas station. The people there didn’t know, but one of them looked it up on his phone, which was very slow. Eventually it came to light that I was on the far side of Greenbelt from where I needed to be, about 20 minutes away, and it was already 8pm. So I just came home, and now I’m posting about it.

Oh, no biggie, I've been there before. Once things start going wrong, they tend to cascade. At any rate, I still got a fine meal, and it was a bit noisy anyway...apparently it was some kind of football night. I suppose that's a downside of not knowing sports...don't know when to avoid them.

Another meetup attempt in the future is always a possibility, of course.